We will engage in technical and professional communications as they operate – as well as how they are perceived – within disciplines not ordinarily associated with these concepts and ideas. We will concentrate on writing in a variety of technical forms of discourse.

We will also emphasize practicing writing processes, secondary research, and problem-solving; recognizing the rhetorical character of scientific and technical discourse with its multiple purposes and audiences; evaluating and integrating a variety of written, visual, and oral elements of design; and developing field-specific vocabularies for talking about this discourse.

Students enrolled in this course can expect to learn the organization, style, and conventions appropriate to various forms of technical communication; practice writing processes, learn research methods, and develop appropriate styles; create effective documents for professional and technical settings, as well as for non-technical audiences; work with each other as a group of professionals, and use multiple communicative technologies.

The Department of English |
Franklin College of Arts & Sciences |
The University of Georgia